All posts by tthorp@brown.edu

A user reported issues with Shadowbox JS plugin showing error messages in the dashboard. I was able to replicate the issues and researched them. The research showed that the plugin had fallen out of support with the author.

In these instances, we do not attempt to take over support for the plugins that are out of support; we remove them from the server.

If you are interested in finding a replacement for the Shadowbox JS plugin, please let us know in the comments or contact me directly.

We had a request from The Choices Program to show a byline for multiple instructors. So, we added the Co-Authors Plus plugin to the Brown Blogs network. Doing so enables some co-author functionality but it doesn’t actually go into the theme and fix the byline codes. Since The Choices Program uses the Hemingway theme, I took the following actions in said theme:

Feb 26 update: one other thing that we will need to keep in mind (going forward) is that the customizations to the Hemingway theme are local to our instance of it and if the theme author (Anders Noren) makes an update, we would need to re-add our customizations to the updated Hemingway.

I just finished running the update to 4.4.1 and was prepping to write my standard “upgraded wordpress” post when I started rethinking that practice. My goal is to keep the platform updated, along with its themes and plugins. I also think that being transparent about changes to the platform is important for compatibility and incident reporting. However, it can get redundant with the frequency of updates that are happening.

So, going forward, I am not going to post when a minor release is installed. Thereby, the next release that I will post about is 4.5.

We upgraded to 4.4 and updated all themes and plugins that had updates available.

Brown Contributions to WordPress Core:

In hope of having better search in wordpress, we reported a bug that got some traction with the awesome wordpress dev team. We were hoping the patches would make it in the 4.4 release, but in the final moments, it was deferred for a future release.